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Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms

by Cheryl Walker
Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms

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ISBN13: 9780822319443
ISBN10: 0822319446



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Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the andquot;usualandquot; questions on their heads, asking not how whites experienced indigenous peoples, but how Native Americans envisioned the United States as a nation. This project unfolds a narrative of participatory resistance in which Indians themselves sought to transform the discourse of nationhood.

Walker examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Demonstrating with unique detail how these authors worked to transform venerable myths and icons of American identity, Indian Nation chronicles Native American participation in the forming of an American nationalism in both published texts and speeches that were delivered throughout the United States. Pottawattomie Chief Simon Pokagonandrsquo;s andquot;The Red Manandrsquo;s Rebuke,andquot; an important document of Indian oratory, is published here in its entirety for the first time since 1893.

By looking at this writing through the lens of the best theoretical work on nationality, postcoloniality, and the subaltern, Walker creates a new and encompassing picture of the relationship between Native Americans and whites. She shows that, contrary to previous studies, America in the nineteenth century was intercultural in significant ways.

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andldquo;Cheryl Walker demonstrates the integral parts played by native Americans in the development of the nineteenth-century American discourse about nationality. Not only does this important scholarly work remind us how fundamentally democratic institutions are indebted to native American cultures, it also teaches us that native Americans have been actively and complexly involved in the crucial political debates of our modernity. Indian Nation helps dismantle the odious but persistent myth of the andlsquo;Vanishing American.andrsquo;andrdquo;andmdash;John Carlos Rowe, University of California, Irvine

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andldquo;Indian Nation offers thorough scholarship, good sense, and a clear style. The insightful overviews and fine brief accounts of Pearce, Slotkin, and Rogin are particularly valuable.andrdquo;andmdash;Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-247) and index.

About the Author

Cheryl Walker is Richard Armour Professor of Modern Languages and Director of the Humanities Institute at Scripps College. She is the author of The Nightingaleandrsquo;s Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900.


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ISBN:
9780822319443
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
04/30/1997
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Series info:
New Americanists
Language:
English
Pages:
280
Height:
.92IN
Width:
6.06IN
Thickness:
.92 in.
LCCN:
96043795
Series:
New Americanists
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
1997
Series Volume:
109
UPC Code:
2800822319445
Editor:
Donald E. Pease
Author:
Donald E. Pease
Author:
Cheryl Walker
Author:
Walker
Author:
Cheryl Walker
Subject:
American literature
Subject:
Nationalism
Subject:
American literature -- 19th century.
Subject:
Indians of North America -- Civilization -- Historiography.
Subject:
Indians in literature
Subject:
Nationalism in literature
Subject:
United states
Subject:
History and criticism
Subject:
Literature and anthropology
Subject:
Indians of north america
Subject:
National characteristics, American, in litera
Subject:
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Subject:
Literature and society
Subject:
Ethnic relations in literature.

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